Cyberbullying: Crossing the Line

Vocab

Harassing: bombarding someone with messages over digital media, or repeated contact when it is least expected

Deceiving: using fake names, posing as someone else, or creating a fake profile about someone else

Flaming: saying mean things, usually in ALL CAPS, and often in a public forum with the intention to humiliate

Hate speech: a verbal attack targeting someone because of their race, gender, religion, ability, or sexual orientation

Lesson Objectives

Students will ...

✓ Analyze online bullying behaviors that “crossing the line".

✓ Learn about the various ways that students can be cyberbullied, including flaming, deceiving, and harassing.

✓ Adopt the point of view of teens who have been cyberbullied, and offer solutions.

Begin with...

To the teacher - Students learn to distinguish good-natured teasing from cyberbullying. Students learn about serious forms of cyberbullying, which include harassment, deception, “flaming,” and threats to safety.

Step 1

Ask students if they have ever heard of the the Key Vocabulary terms harassing, deceiving, flaming, and hate speech. Have students describe the terms, and then provide their definitions.

Discuss with students why someone might not want to talk to other people about a cyberbullying situation. What would the roadblocks be? Why? Emphasize to students that, no matter what label they put on a situation, if it makes them feel uncomfortable, upset, or hurt, they should talk to someone about it.

Step 2

Work through the accompanying Google Slide Presentation. You will need to install the Pear Deck add on if you have not done so already.

Make a COPY of the slide show so you can run it in Pear Deck/Self-paced mode for students! If you need assistance with Pear Deck, visit the Pear Deck Instruction page.

To the students - you will be looking at some case studies involving cyberbullying in the Pear Deck presentation and completing the appropriate slides.

Wrap Up

In one minute have students share the most important thing they learned from today’s lesson.

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